Kaede Fuyou
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Kaede Fuyou (芙蓉 楓 Fuyō Kaede?) is a character in Navel's Shuffle! media franchise. She is one of the main characters in both the original Shuffle! and Really? Really! visual novels. The characters of Shuffle! have a theme of being named after plants. Her given name, kaede (楓), is the Japanese word for maple, and her surname, fuyō (芙蓉), refers to the Hibiscus mutabilis. Kaede is voiced by Yuko Goto (Japanese) and Carrie Savage (English) and was designed by Aoi Nishimata.
[edit] In the Shuffle! anime
Eight years prior to the time Shuffle! takes place, both of Rin's parents and Kaede's mother are killed in a car accident. Kaede became traumatized from the incident, losing her will to live. Rin overheard the doctor saying that she needed a reason - any reason - to live. Rin then went to Kaede and told her that on the night of the accident, he was lonely and phoned his parents, asking them to come back. Since his parents and Kaede's mother rode in the same car, he essentially told Kaede that it was his fault that her mother died. This caused Kaede to harbor a deep hatred for Rin. Upon emerging from her stupor, she began to choke him. Since Kaede's father decided to take Rin into their home, Rin constantly had to endure Kaede's deep hatred of him. While putting on a front of being friends to her father, Kaede performed vengeful acts such as destroying Rin's room and attempting to hurt him.
Later, some time during their junior high years, Kaede found a postcard while rummaging through Rin's possessions after destroying Rin's model ship—one of his most prized possessions. The postcard sparked her memory of the night of the accident, and she remembered that the reason her mother (and Rin's parents) came back was because she had a fever, and she had asked her father to call her mother home. This meant that her mother's death was to be blamed on Kaede herself, rather than Rin. Rin rushed in just as she finished reading the postcard, but he was too late to prevent Kaede from remembering everything and feeling deep guilt for her actions.
In order to atone for her actions in the past, Kaede decided to make herself Rin's personal servant by cooking his meals and doing all the work around the house. Rin does not want this, but he is afraid of causing Kaede a relapse by not allowing her to punish herself in this way. One should note that a deeper look into the past events surrounding Kaede and Rin's past are explained in deeper detail in episode nineteen of the series.
In "Really? Really!", the sequel to Kaede's path in the original "Shuffle!" game, we gain a little more insight on Kaede's and Rin's past. Through all the years and abuse Rin continues to live in the Fuyou house with Kaede. After telling that lie Rin had a choice of leaving the Fuyou house but still chose to stay by her side. This is because of a childhood promise to be with her. Time passes and Kaede begins to notice suttle things about Rin. He never blames her for getting into fights with Kaede's Fan Club(Yes, she was an idol even then).He doesnt blame her after she pushes him down a staircase. He denies the fact Kaede drops a pot over his head, even though she openly admits it was her(In reality it wasn't her, she must've been trying to get him to blame her). These events cause a wedge between Sakura and Kaede(Sakura was Rin's and Kaede's childhood friend.), as they begin to avoid eachother. Rin even goes as far as trying to make amends between the two, disregarding himself. "You don't have to get along with me, just hang out with Sakura like old times", Rin proclaims but to no avail.
Realizing that being with Kaede will just worsen the situation, Rin begins having thoughts about leaving the Fuyou house. Kaede discovers why her mother and Rin's parents tried to return, but not through a postcard recovered from Rin's possessions (Rin's shipbuilding skills only exist in the anime). Instead, it's when she overheard Rin and her father, Mikio, debating whether or not it was time to tell her the truth about it. Rin was saying he wanted to leave the house without saying anything, but Mikio wanted Kaede to know. As well as to make some sort of amends to Rin. She barges in and demands that they tell her exactly what they are hiding from her. To Rin's surprise, Mikio decides to tell her the whole truth. Instead of Rin making the phone call it was Mikio, all he did was tell Mikio that Kaede was sick. Mikio then phoned Momiji about Kaede's cold. Which lead to her rushing home with Rin's parents, thus causing the accident. Mikio's words were;"The cause of that accident wasn't Rin, it was us, we stole Rin's parents from him". Just like in the anime, when she realizes what she's done to Rin, she runs out of the house. However, she runs back to the playground where, several years earlier, she had declared her hatred for Rin("Rin should die!"). Minutes later, Rin finds Kaede in the playground, who immediately runs up to him and begins apologizing profusely for all the hatred and physical abuse she has inflicted upon him throughout the years.
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[edit] External links
- Kaede Fuyou's character profile for Shuffle! (Japanese)
- Kaede Fuyou's character profile for Really? Really! (Japanese)
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